Using a 100 compression ball is like jumping on a trampoline with your legs stiff. The one that flexes his knees and times the release properly will go much higher on the trampoline. The new club faces are trampolines, so a ball with the same release timing as the face ( softer compression) goes farther.
llhack
----- Original Message -----From: Al TaylorSent: 2/4/04 9:35:00 PMSubject: Re: ShopTalk: (Not Clubmaking) Golf Ball QuestionUhhhh, to remove some more collision loss from the ball?
Al
let me know if I won.
At 10:51 AM 2/4/2004, you wrote:
If you are going to play a spring faced driver why would you want a 100 compression ball?
llhack
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Steve \"Cub\" Culbreth
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: 2/4/04 2:48:49 PM
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: (Not Clubmaking) Golf Ball Question
- Alan,
- Thanks for the info but whether or not they mark the balls as such they still perform a compression measurement on most. If you dig into specs on many of them you see some as low as 66 compression. The problem is that I can't find one with specs showing 100 compression. Titliest lists the compression of some balls in their spec sheets but some such as the Pro V aren't provided.
- There are still days here in the near tropical region of Hawaii where in local parlance "one ball go mo fah dan yestadah". This past Sunday was rainy-to-muggy and I was losing 10 yards per club with balls which went further in windy but different pressure weather a few days before. I'm getting old but I remember, even in Japan, switching over from 90 to 100 compression balls at different times of the year.
- So phooey on D&G... I need the compression rating ;-)
- Cub
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Alan Brooks
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:38 PM
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: (Not Clubmaking) Golf Ball Question
- That question was brought up on either Dynacraft's or Golfsmith's forums not too long ago and I believe the response was that ball construction has changed so much that the old ratings are no longer meaningful. The February issue of Golf Digest has a ranking of balls, for what that's worth. Gene Parente at Golf Labs recommends Pro V's and Precept Tours (now U-Tri) for testing because of their consistency. I play the Precepts and really like them. They have the additional advantage that not many people play them so they don't 'disappear' from the middle of the fairway as often.
- Regards,
- Alan
- At 07:06 PM 2/3/2004 -1000, you wrote:
- Jents,
- Can any of you suggest a good 100 compression ball? They used to mark and advertise the compression, and once you could tell by the color of the numbers, but they aren't marked now and I don't believe the colors can be trusted.
- Fairways and Greens,
- Cub